While House Republicans remain committed to their party’s standard bearer Donald Trump’s racist and reckless vision for our country, Democratic Hispanic candidates are about to make history as the number of Hispanic members of Congress is expected to grow this November. And although progress has been made to building a bench of next leaders within our diverse and inclusive party, there’s still a lot of work to make sure the U.S. Congress accurately represents the diversity of our nation.
In case you missed it today, the Washington Post highlighted Democratic congressional candidate Ruben Kihuen running against Trump supporter Cresent Hardy:
- “Kihuen […] campaigns flawlessly in both languages […] Political forecasters give him the edge in a contest against first-term incumbent Rep. Cresent Hardy (R-Nev.) to represent the state’s 4th Congressional District. The 36-year-old, who pronounces his last name ‘key-when,’ moved from Mexico in 1988. His parents first settled the family in California, then Nevada.”
- “Their first job was picking strawberries in the fields of California,” Kihuen said. “We didn’t know where we were going to live, we had no connections, no friends, no family. Thirty years later, their son is a state senator running for Congress. That’s the essence of the American Dream.”